Troll Was Last Seen "Helping" In The Basement

Review of basement video shows the last sighting of Troll:

He was right there in the middle of things, then, when we looked back the next minute, he was gone. Why would he just disappear like that?

It May Be The End of Troll

Missing! Have you seen this troll? 173 years old. Bright pink hair. Last seen wearing a shiny red fireman's coat.

Quite a Drain

Most of the drain pipe is now in place. It is much bigger around than the old drain tiles. Here in the crazy plumbing area, the drain pipe gets crazy to go under it:

Troll seems to really be fascinated by the clean-outs in the pipe:

Notice how the perforated pipe is wearing stockings to keep the gravel out of the inside... I would not have thought to look for something like that in Lowes if I were doing the work.

Basement Reinforcements

Frank's finally got a building permit on Wednesday morning and started chewing up the basement floor. The puddles are where the posts are going:


Some of the strange plumbing in the basement has gotten stranger:





Since opening up the floor for the posts cut into the old drain tile that fed the sump pump, we added a couple of $ grand to waterproof the perimeter. A foot-wide opening is being made on all four walls (even the ones that don't get posts), and this will be lined with gravel and a perforated drain pipe:



One of the last changes that the engineer made was to specify 4 x 4 beams spaced at three foot intervals (instead of 4 x 6 at four foot intervals). This is what the north wall looks like: